Cycle-saddle.



PATENTEDMAY 2s, 1905.

J. B. BROOKS L J. HOLT.

CYCLE SADDLE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN 15. 1904.

No. 790,717.V

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INVENTORS @0f/@L EIWZ? I PATENTBD MAY 23, 1905.

J. B. BROOKS & J. HOLT.

- CYCLE SADDLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1904.

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| N VENTD E365/l@ E. Brow/5d' @im da UNITED STATES `Patented May 23, 1905.

JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS AND JOHN HOLT, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,717, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed January 15, 1904. Serial No. 189,177.

T0 all whom imay concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, managing director, and JOHN HOL'r, works manager, subjects of the King of Great Britain, both of J. B. Brooks and Company, Limited, Criterion I/Vorks, Great Charles street, Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle- Saddles, of which the following'is a specilication.

This invention has relation principally to saddles for motor-cycles, but is also applicable to ordinary cycle-saddles, and has for its primary Object to provide such saddles with improved compound anticoncussion or antivibration spring. devices for resiliently supporting the seats of same, the members or` elements of such devices being so formed and arranged in interdependent and connected combination that they will mutually reciprocate or cooperate in preventing or neutralizing and compensating for the rebound or reaction of the said devices after they have been made active bythe passage of the cycle over an obstruction in its path.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a longitudinal section of a motorcycle saddle illustrating one method of applying the improved compound spring devices, which are shown in their normal condition. Fig. 2 is a similar view, but shows the members of the compound spring in the form they assume when the saddle is loaded. Fig. 3 is an under side plan of the saddle. Fig. 4 is a back elevation of the saddle with one of the compound spring devices in section. Fig. 5 shows an elevation of the front of the saddle.

The same numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In the particular arrangement shown the back of the saddle 10 is resiliently supported from the underi'raming 11 through the medium of a pair of combined anticoncussion and antirebound devices 12, each consisting, essentially, ofa close-coiled distensible spring 13, suspended from the underframing, and a compressible spring 14, connected with the seat and in interdependent connection with the suspension-spring, which is the outer member of the device and has its coils closely wound and of considerable diameter, so that the saidspring can be easilydistended, whereas the other and inner spring, which is opencoiled and compressible, is of much less diameter than the outer spring, and so offers relatively greater resistance to compression than the said outer spring does to distension.

The two springs are made or formed independently, so that their relative strengths may be properly proportioned to insure the desired result and they may be connected together in various ways to insure their interdependent action in compensating for rebound, and in the form shown this connection is made by forming eyes 15 16 at the terminations of the bottom coils of both members and passing a pin or bolt 17 therethrough and securing them by means of a nut.

To connect the saddle-seat with thesuspended spring devices, its cantle-plate is provided on each side with a vertically-depending rod or hanger 18, which extends centrally or axially into the suspension member 13 and is made fast at its lower end to the summit of the internal compression-spring 14, whose coils are th us interposed between the seathanger and the distensible spring and constitute a compressible connection between the parts, wherethrough all motion conveyed from the one to the other has to be transmitted.

,When the saddle is loaded, the pressure applied to the seat is transmitted, through the hanger-rods, to the internal springs,which are thereby compressed and in turn transmit the movement to the lower ends of the suspended distensible springs, whose coils are opened out until the weight of the load is balanced and resiliently supported; but when the cycle to which the saddle is fitted rises in passing over an obstruction the underframing 11, being secured to and relatively immovable with respect to the said machine, is made to approach the loaded seat and momentarily decrease the distance between these parts. By this upward relative movement of the underfraine a pull is applied to the upper ends of the distensible springs, whose coils are further separated, while simultaneously the coils IOO of the compression-springs are more or less further closed by compression between the bottom coils of' the. outer springs and the lower extremities of the hanger-rods. By the coperation or mutual efect of the oppo.- sitely-acting and interdependently-connected springs the shock or concussion. set up by the passage of the cycle over the obstruction is effectively taken up or absorbed and prevented from being transmitted, hanger-rods, to the seat, whereas after the machine has cleared the obstruction and the saddle frame and seat tend to separate or resume their normal relative positions the coils of the compression-springs in separating to their normal condition'act in opposition toy and tendV to balance or cushion the closing-reaction of the distensible springs, whose return is checked, and thus the reaction of the devices is moderated and the creation and transturn transmits the movements oi' the seat tothe lower end of the suspended extensionspring. The front off thesaddle may also be rcsiliently supported upon one or more compound spri-ng devices of the construction herein described; but in the arrangement illustrated the said front is resil-iently supported upon a special form of spring of the leveringarm type. Theseat-stretcher members 190i the saddle are extended beyond thepeak into a pair of curved arms 20terminatingY in eyes or loops 2l, and between these arms and the fore end of the. underframing there: is interposed a spring 22consisting of a pair of coils 23, arranged Vertical-ly at a point below and some distanceinward of the peak of the, seat, and from the tops of thesev loops a. pair of long levering-arms 24 extend forwardly and upwardly and terminate in eyes or loops 25 which are placed"coi-ncidentwith the loop terminations2l of the stretcher-rod extensions Versely -disposed pin 26.

loop-coils are `also extended into shorter arms 27, which are rigid-ly secured to the under- L through the:

framing. The two twin springs are prefer-l ably formed from a single length of wire, in which casethe bottom or stand side arms are connected at their front ends and clamped to the underframe by a nut and bolt.

By the employment of levering-springs in which the loop-coils are set inward beyond the end ofthe seat and are provided' with arms which are jointed to extensions of the seatstreteher wires the peak of the seat is resiliently and flexibly supported and a maximum of ease and comfort is obtained, as the excessive vibration developed by heavy motorcycles and the like when traveling at high speeds is eifectually absorbed and neutralized.

Having fully describedv our invention, what we desire to claim and secure by Letters Patj ent is 1. A resiliently-supporting device for cyclesaddley seats comprising the combination with the underframingof the seat, of a spring-supporting means connected with the peak of the saddleand the underframing, apair'of hangerrods secured at their upper ends to= each side of the cantle-plate of the saddle, a pair' of closely coiled and separated distensible springs, attached to the rear of the underframing, a compressible spring arranged in each ofisaid distensible springs and connected at their upper ends tothe lower end of said hanger-rodsr and means, for4 connecting the lower ends of said compression-springs tothe lower end of said distensiblespring.

2., A resiliently-supporting device for cycleseatS, comprising the combination with the underframing of the. seats and means for sul-tably connecting the seat. at itsl forward end n' withv the underframing, of a pair; oi' hangerrods secu-red at their upper ends with the seats, a pair of closely coiled distensible springs suitably spacedv apart and attached at their upper end to the rear of the underframing, acompressi-ble spring arranged in each -lower end of said compression-spring to the lower end of said distensible springs.

In testlmony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS. JOHN HOLT. Witnesses:

HENRY SKERRETT, HENRY NoR'roN SKERRETT.

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